Perspectives of the Quantitative and Structural Evolution of Tertiary Education in Romania

The paper deals with the problems of development of tertiary education during the last decade and the perspective in the second decade of the 21-st century. Therefore, firstly, it is analysed the evolution of the number of students and their distribution within specialization fields in European Union. Also, a special attention is paid to identification of characteristic features of the tertiary education in Romania during the period of integration in European Union. The second part of the paper is dedicated the projection of tertiary education supply in Romania from quantitative and structural point of view. In this context, there are presented the constraints and opportunities for the modelling the evolution of tertiary education generated by demographic dynamics and the convergence with the students distribution on specialization fields registered in European Union as a whole.